Use the Option Key for New Window Resizing Options on Your Mac

Since the introduction of OS X Lion, the Mac has had new options for adjusting the dimensions of windows. Before Lion, you were limited to clicking and dragging a window's bottom right corner to adjust its size, or using the green and yellow buttons in the window's upper left corner to set the window to predefined sizes.

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With Lion and later versions of the OS, you have a great deal more flexibility, including some secret methods of setting window size using the option key.

Oops. I guess it's not a secret anymore. If you want to learn the myriad ways of resizing your Mac's windows, take a look at:

Resizing Your Mac's Windows with New Tricks